Release courtesy of Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications
NEW ORLEANS, LA – The honors continue to roll in for Johns Hopkins junior standout Victoria Kadiri, who has been selected as the 2023 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year. In addition, in a post-championship vote, she was also selected as the Outstanding Field Performer at the recent NCAA Division III Championships.
Kadiri, who earns her second consecutive National Field Athlete of the Year award, won both the long jump and triple jump at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track Championships while also adding an eighth-place showing in the Heptathlon. Her two individual titles at the outdoor championships give her seven individual national titles (indoor & outdoor combined), which is the most-ever by a Johns Hopkins female student-athlete.
Kadiri opened her effort at the NCAAs with the long jump and easily claimed the title with a jump of 6.16 meters, the fifth-best mark in Division III history. She topped the six-meter mark on two additional jumps and all three would have won her the national title.
Overlapping with the long jump, Kadiri added her eighth-place finish in the two-day Heptathlon. She totaled a personal-best 4,889 points to grab her second All-America finish of the championship.
Closing out her efforts on day three of the NCAA Championships in the triple jump, Kadiri marked at 12.84 meters on her first attempt. As it turned out, that would have been good enough to claim the title by more than a foot, but she wasn't done. On her final five attempts, she twice cleared the 13-meter mark (13.05 & 13.21) to break the previous national record of 13.00 meters, which had stood for six years.
Noting Victoria Kadiri – Outdoor Track
• First NCAA Division III female athlete to twice win the USTFCCCA National Field Athlete of the Year (award debuted in 2006).
• First person ever to sweep the long jump and triple jump at the NCAA Division III Women's Outdoor Track Championships in back-to-back years.
• Second woman to win the long jump in back-to-back years at the NCAA Division III Championships and the first to do it since Natalie Calderon (Redlands) in 2007 & 2008. The long jump debuted at the inaugural Division III Women's Outdoor Track Championships in 1982.
• Tenth person to win the triple jump in two or more consecutive years and the first since Bria Halama (Wisconsin-La Crosse) in 2015 & 2016.